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The bill, which now heads to the Senate, also sets the money necessary for a 2.7% pay increase for military personnel, and includes hundreds of millions of dollars for a variety of Hampton Roads initiatives.
“Whenever there’s a crisis anywhere in the world, the first question the President asks, that I myself and the Secretary of Defense ask is ‘where is the nearest carrier?’”
The agreement between the meat-packing giant an International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 822 covers more than 1,000 workers at the company’s Smithfield plant. About 98% of union voters supported the contract.
Now, the Bush and its air wing are conducting “group sail” operations with the cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and Destroyer Squadron 26, focusing on the coordinated operations that they’ll all be running when they deploy as a carrier strike group.
Under the new contract, shipbuilders covered by Local 8888′s agreement would see at least an 11.75% increase in pay, the same as in a proposal union members rejected in November by a vote of 1,312 to 684.
The money comes from American Rescue Plan funds set aside for transit systems and will help keep HRT's multi-year strategy to improve services on track, said president and chief executive officer William Harrell.
Dozens of students staged a walkout Monday at four of Hampton's high schools. The 15-year-old who organized the walkout told her mother she wanted to organize a peaceful protest after seeing what her family experienced since they began to speak publicly about her sister’s sexual assault allegations.